bro i thought this was my background

[sharp ivy]

not related to balatro at all but im absolutely astounded, out of all the images on the internet, we have the exact same image as backgrounds, but mirrored

[obsidian hawk]

That is actually pretty funny

[tepid lynx]

nsane

[sharp ivy]

and mine has text on it so im pretty sure its the original

[stark sphinx]

they cut a hole in his discord

[tawdry knot]

lmfaoo

zebra is literally me

[sharp ivy]

right!? do you like mushishi?

[tawdry knot]

im using vencord plugin and i liked this

im as surprised anyone has like

[sharp ivy]

bc that's what the full image is

[tawdry knot]

literally the same

background

[sharp ivy]

it's mushishi fan art, my fav anime

[tawdry knot]

i have no idea what mushishi is

i do watch anime though

my pc desktop background is FMA

[sharp ivy]

mushishi is sorta like fantastical japanese folk tale stories, each episode
very low key

[tawdry knot]

i see

what other anime/mangas have you seen

[sharp ivy]

oh sorry, went to do work stuff lol
I have an anime list here https://myanimelist.net/animelist/ZebraGoBoom?status=1

[tawdry knot]

good list

wasnt boku no pico like

[sharp ivy]

yes

[tawdry knot]

yeah

[sharp ivy]

no further comment

lmfao

I've been watching anime a very long time

[tawdry knot]

i mean look if i want to like

jake it

im not going to anime for that

yk

[tepid lynx]

hey man they gave it a low score

[sharp ivy]

it was more for cultural knowledge 8f you get me

internet culture

[tawdry knot]

biology knowledge if you may

[tepid lynx]

the question is why is it any higher than like a 1

[tawdry knot]

yeah

[sharp ivy]

because I've seen worse storylines honestly

[tepid lynx]

cause even if u put aside the weird shit it seems like really garbage

[tepid lynx]

yea but then you add the weird shit on a bad storyline

[tawdry knot]

i kind of hate sword art online with a passion
the first two episodes is filled to the brim with so much cliche anime tropes it made me want to puke

[tepid lynx]

i dont have a MAL tbh

[sharp ivy]

I mean, depending on when you started watching anime SAO might've popularized the tropes

[tawdry knot]

theres a bad storyline and then theres weird shirt with a bad storyline

[sharp ivy]

sao is what kick started isekai

plus ./hack

[tawdry knot]

yeah i can see it's influence on the genre

im not an isekai fan myself

[tepid lynx]

like i believe them when they say its not the worst story they've seen 💀 but its also weird shit so

[tawdry knot]

it's usually same boring tropes despite having a lot of potential

eminence in the shadow is a great isekai literally because it embraces and makes fun of the trope

[tepid lynx]

amazing list right here btw

i lowkey rated as good as

[sharp ivy]

but sao is pretty tropey and it's not great writing, I agree
it's that sort of lowest common denominator show that tends to be more popular

[tawdry knot]

why is ** ** rated that high

smh

i think ** ** covers that trope much better

[tepid lynx]

no mushoku tensei

[sharp ivy]

but it holds a special place in my heart

[tepid lynx]

on ur list

[tawdry knot]

mushoku tensei is also a good isekai

[sharp ivy]

is that the perv child one

[tawdry knot]

that i watched

[sharp ivy]

I started it

[tawdry knot]

yes

its really good though

it has weird stuff obvi but it has a good storyline

[sharp ivy]

like 6 episodes in, it's pretty cool but I just fucking hate characters that have "one thing"

[tawdry knot]

like the one thing you dont see in other isekais is the mention of the previous world

or like

regrets

wanting to go back

[sharp ivy]

and the main character is only a "one thing" perv

[tawdry knot]

not wanting to go back

etc etc

[tepid lynx]

he isnt

[tawdry knot]

hes not

[tepid lynx]

he starts that way though

[tawdry knot]

yeah

[tepid lynx]

i would say theres like no character thats one dimensional in that show

[tawdry knot]

he remains a perv throughout but the character development makes it happen like rarelier

[sharp ivy]

idk man I watched 2 whole hours of show without a change

[tepid lynx]

its fleshed out to an insane degree

[tawdry knot]

i mean if you watched boku no pico theres no way you are not giving this a chance

[tepid lynx]

there was no incentive to change

[tawdry knot]

so

[tepid lynx]

in the first episodes

its purely to set up the world

and to show how bad rudeus is

[sharp ivy]

he like, grows up for years in the show without any change in his steadfast goals of skirt chasing (and Gary sue power levelling ofc but I actually like op main characters)

but I'll believe you

[tepid lynx]

where did u stop

just so i have context

[sharp ivy]

5 or 6

[tepid lynx]

cause at least i can say how many more id say you should give a chance before u make a final verdict

ok

ah you didnt even reach turning point 1

which is fair

thats the 8th episode

[tawdry knot]

i mean in context he's a low life gooner in his previous life so i wouldn't immidiately expect a drastic character development in like first episode

but yeah i get you

[tepid lynx]

i mean lowkey id say the first cour at least you should watch

[sharp ivy]

it's more that why would I expect the character to change when he spends additional 7-8 years canonically being a weirdo

[tepid lynx]

as in first 12 episodes of season 1

[tepid lynx]

reasonable but there is literally 0 bad things or incentives to change in that time

the show doesnt stay slice of life gooner sim forever

[tawdry knot]

mhm

[tepid lynx]

like i mean within the story thats why he didnt change in that time

[sharp ivy]

first cour?

[tepid lynx]

cour is like a series of episodes ig?

[sharp ivy]

okay, like an arc?

[tepid lynx]

they did the first 12 episodes and then released the latter half later

not exactly

[sharp ivy]

I see a two part season

gotcha

[tepid lynx]

yea cour=part ig here

apparently it just means 12-13 episodes 💀

[tawdry knot]

real

i kinda dont like that animes shorten their seasons nowadays

to like

12 episodes

[tepid lynx]

i will say

[sharp ivy]

ah I see, it's a season of anime

[tepid lynx]

he still maintains pervertity for like the entire series

[sharp ivy]

like, a celestial season, winter/summer type shit

[tawdry knot]

did you watch/read dandadan btw i dont think i saw it on your list

[tepid lynx]

but he at least isnt one dimensional

[tawdry knot]

but not nearly as drastic as like in first episodes

or as often occuring

[tepid lynx]

yea

[sharp ivy]

don't believe so

[tawdry knot]

its an amazing read

[tepid lynx]

bro whats with all the weird shit in anime tho

i watched dandadan and it was good but weird shit man

[tawdry knot]

manga writers generally have perverted thoughts

[tepid lynx]

fml bro BE NORMAL

[tawdry knot]

the weird shit only happens on like

[tepid lynx]

CANT U MAKE A GOOD STORY

[tawdry knot]

first chapters

thankfully

when they encounter the aliens

[tepid lynx]

the first season is like all weird shit tho

[tawdry knot]

wait actually yeah

[tepid lynx]

did u see how it fucking ended

oml

[tawdry knot]

the entire season revolves around his balls so

almost the entire manga so far even

[tepid lynx]

thats not the weird shit

[tawdry knot]

yeah but i just wanted to mention it

[tepid lynx]

😭

[sharp ivy]

sorry to break it to you but it is truly the demographic they're writing for

[tepid lynx]

i kinda wanted to make okaruns balls as a joker

[tawdry knot]

LOL

[tepid lynx]

i just think it would be really funny

[sharp ivy]

it's not for a western audience, they just have different values

[tepid lynx]

its for a gooner audience fr

[tawdry knot]

two golden spheres

[sharp ivy]

you never see drug use but you'll see people staring at preteens

[tepid lynx]

ye

[tawdry knot]

similiar thing happens with power fantasy

just to sell the toys and make quick money

theres so many slop in both regards

[tepid lynx]

like im ngl and this might sound crazy

but id put mushoku tensei after reading the entire story

above aot

in terms of writing

[sharp ivy]

bro I need to finish aot I've tried so many times

[tawdry knot]

okay yeah that sounds really crazy

[tepid lynx]

did u read it

[tawdry knot]

i finished aot

[sharp ivy]

I'm just ass at watching airing anime and never got back to it

[tepid lynx]

mushoku tensei*

[tawdry knot]

i didnt read the manga no

[tepid lynx]

dont read the manga btw

[tawdry knot]

i finished to the latest point in anime

[tawdry knot]

why not

[tepid lynx]

it cuts out stuff

[tawdry knot]

huh

[tepid lynx]

like lowkey genuinely the best way to consume the story is through the light novels

the manga is not the original form

and also im pretty sure the translations suck

[tawdry knot]

i'd generally expect anime to cut stuff from manga

manga itself cutting is new to me

but i guess it makes sense

[sharp ivy]

speaking of light novels and the best way to consume stories, you should check out sword art online progressive

[tepid lynx]

yea cause the web/light novel was the original

[tawdry knot]

nah i am not checking out sao for anything

[sharp ivy]

it's a light novel/manga retelling sao floor by floor

[tawdry knot]

i would actually recoil

i've seen so many stuff better than it

[tepid lynx]

i would say it characterizes rudeus way better in the novel

[sharp ivy]

it's much better written because the author knows how to write now

[tepid lynx]

cause ive seen scenes in the anime which have a lot more nuance when read in the LN

[sharp ivy]

the original LN was their first piece ever

[sharp ivy]

your loss, progressive is really good

[tepid lynx]

like the anime does a really good job but at the same time theres SO much characterization left out its kind of insane

[sharp ivy]

if it was made anime I'd give it a 9 where I gave sao a 6

[tawdry knot]

the only reason i'd restart the anime is that i would have to like
be held at gunpoint

ngl

[tepid lynx]

im pretty sure theres like some really heartwrenching scenes that are cut out as well

[sharp ivy]

I didn't say the anime though :v

[tawdry knot]

yeah if the progrsssive was an anime

i get ya

[sharp ivy]

honestly tho generally I hate "anime" feeling anime, with tropes and shit

I like new stories

[tepid lynx]

like rudeus in the light novel talks a lot about his regrets and how he felt more and more like giving up because of people succeeding around him which you would never know if u didnt read it. in the anime you kind of dont see him ever bring up his past life after a certain point

[sharp ivy]

one of my fav manga/anime is Planetes, about space garbage workers (but it's more than that)

[tepid lynx]

yea basically i recommend reading it if u can

[tepid lynx]

dman i remember i watched this one anime that was just solid with no weird shit

and im forgetting it

[tawdry knot]

imo the anime did a decent job about the reminder of past life almost purely because literally no isekai ever does it

but damn

[tepid lynx]

it does

its not bad but theres still a lot you miss

like if i summed it up, even if you watched the entire story in anime form id say its still worth it to read it in the light novel once even after that

just cause theres so much there and tbh i can see them not even adapting some of the content because theres often side stories

[tepid lynx]

i think thats kind of why i like old anime and prolly why i liked mushoku tensei too

cause like i dont fault them for having tropes and they dont over do the tropes too much compared to modern shows imo, because they were around when those tropes were forming

code geass, angel beats stuff like that

kiss x sis on ur list 💀

is it good

i didnt watcch

MADE IN ABYSS

W

10/10 too UR THE GOAT

[sharp ivy]

W

very w

[tepid lynx]

wait did u not watch

[sharp ivy]

have a giant map poster of the abyss on my wall

[tepid lynx]

the movie

[sharp ivy]

and no I haven't seen it yet, it's a character flaw

[tepid lynx]

?

[sharp ivy]

of mine

[tepid lynx]

ah

the third movie

🤯

so good

probably the peak so far of the show for me

[sharp ivy]

first season was really magical for me to watch so I'll definitely get to it

[tepid lynx]

i can literally feel my heart skip a beat thinking about it like im not even lying rn

[tawdry knot]

mob psycho 100

major W

[sharp ivy]

what did I give mob again?

I much prefer Opm to be honest that hits all my favorite aspects of anime

[tawdry knot]

61th

i like mob a lot more than opm

[sharp ivy]

out of 10 I mean

[tepid lynx]

i liked mob more icl

[tawdry knot]

8

i'd give it an at least 9

[sharp ivy]

I think the list is alphabetical at first? or is that 61th in score fr

[tawdry knot]

alphabetical

actually

no

katanagatari is on first and the score is

7

[sharp ivy]

I I think that means it's an order of me adding them then

[tawdry knot]

@sharp ivy how dare you give vinland saga season 2 lower than 10

[sharp ivy]

sorry man, character growth is lame as fuck 🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪

I just hated his change of heart, made no sense to me

[tawdry knot]

uncultured swine 💔

i may start cowboy bebop soonge

[sharp ivy]

but that's the love for OP main characters in me

[sharp ivy]

YES

yea.

it's famous for a reason, and another reason, and a lot of reasons

[tawdry knot]

i think you like k-on

[tawdry knot]

I like op characters when written good

OPM being a brilliant example

like the character shouldnt be corny ass "i'll save the world" one dimensional ass kicker

[tepid lynx]

i think bondrewd is like my favorite villain in anime

[sharp ivy]

guh

[tepid lynx]

agreeedddd

[sharp ivy]

don't draw me back in every watched Kay on too many times already

[tepid lynx]

bro im ngl i think one of the reasons i like mushoku tensei is somehow they made rudeus op and not op at the same time

[sharp ivy]

I know I said I don't like tropes but k on is the best cute anime

[tepid lynx]

im gonna become racist and make my pfp a k-on girl

[tawdry knot]

LMAO

[sharp ivy]

based

the funniest racists use kon pfps

[tawdry knot]

rudeus's progression is written well
he trained in a different way (not using words for spells) since when he was a baby

he's not immidiately godlike but relatively superior

[tepid lynx]

yea

he scales pretty high early but hes by far not the biggest fish in the pond

and early on the challenges he faces arent physical in nature, but socially and psychologically

really really interesting writing

[tawdry knot]

mhm

[sharp ivy]

magic spells without speaking is one of the major plot points in the eragon books :^)

[tepid lynx]

the scene where he ||is about to wipe a city off the map|| is like one example where he clearly outscales physically but the scene itself is a culmination of a social/psychological issue that he was dealing with

[sharp ivy]

and maybe Harry Potter? I don't rember

[tepid lynx]

wait harry potter has incantationless spells?

[sharp ivy]

I can't rember 😭 I thought that might've been a final book plot point or something

[tawdry knot]

and ||his fight with the white dragonic guy was also really cool in being-outclassed||

[tawdry knot]

no im pretty sure every spell in harry potter i remember was

vocal

[sharp ivy]

definitely is in the inheritance cycle (eragon books) though ||eragon uses a wordless spell to simply make the antagonist feel all the pain and suffering he has already brought upon the world, slipping by explicit contract-style magic wards||

[tawdry knot]

well not in every occation but majorly

vocal

[tepid lynx]

oh my life bro ||orsted|| is legit a goat character

you gotta read the LN man at some point (or wait for anime to catch up but that will take forever)

i think reading the LN was like one of the peakest media experiences ive ever had

[sharp ivy]

I might read the LN rather than watch the anime over again

[tawdry knot]

wow

[sharp ivy]

I prefer books anyways

[tepid lynx]

easily top 3 if not top 1 its so good

[tawdry knot]

i've read a few mangas but no a LN so far

i finished solo leveling manga recently

[sharp ivy]

aaah this I was trying to remember the name of it

I read the Ln (or was it a webnovel) and had some fun

[tawdry knot]

its a good read but i really disliked how they handled the ending

[sharp ivy]

yup

[tawdry knot]

istg manga writers on their way to conclude great storylines with shit endings

[tepid lynx]

the reason i think the LN works better is cause with an anime you show the characterization through action

[tawdry knot]

https://tenor.com/view/lol-gif-23945636

[sharp ivy]

pretty sure the author just got bored of writing it

[tepid lynx]

theres a lot of inner monolgue in the LN that u cant put in an anime

[tepid lynx]

it was bad

tbh i dont remember it being that bad but it was stupid

[tawdry knot]

yeah it was really stupid

everyone here finished it right i dont have to ||

[sharp ivy]

that's the sort of thing that happens when a story isn't a passion project, but more of a side project that happened to take off in popularity

[tepid lynx]

i did

solo leveling is like most generic power scaling fantasy but it somehow is still entertaining

istg

[tawdry knot]

solo leveling does a not bad job at like

worldbuilding

[sharp ivy]

oh it's like, dog shit writing
but it feels so good

it's anime fast food

[tawdry knot]

exactly

i feel like it sucked sung jin woo's balls too hard

after a certain point

[sharp ivy]

I love stories where the point is that the main character might be too op

[tawdry knot]

the cup of 10-years-time-travel was literally bullshit

[tepid lynx]

its like eating mcdonalds istg

i know its shit but i need it in my food hole

[sharp ivy]

opm, solo leveling, overlord, etc

[tawdry knot]

like i found the side stories after chapter 180 entertaining but it really should've happened in the main universe

[tepid lynx]

im lowkey tired of anime now

[tawdry knot]

beru is my goat

[tepid lynx]

i went through my big anime phase long ago

[sharp ivy]

goblin slayer (which people seem to think is an isekai for some reason)

[tawdry knot]

i liked that goblin slayer is like

on a serious setting

but i got really bored at season 2

[tepid lynx]

i watched so many random shows

like theres probably 50 shows i dont even remember the name of and probably a similar amount that i dont even remember at all

[sharp ivy]

that's why I halfheartedly use MAL

[tepid lynx]

https://myanimelist.net/anime/17895/Golden_Time

this is one i do remember watching

[tawdry knot]

i watched csm and could not wait for the movie so i hopped on to manga

the most recent writing has been

ridiculous

[tepid lynx]

not unpopular but like i think a lot of ppl never heard of it

i didnt like csm that much

[tawdry knot]

alongside the drawing quality

i loved csm

[tepid lynx]

idk man like i just didnt get invested at all

[tawdry knot]

theres something about it that like

really got me invested

[tepid lynx]

i like the characters

idk man i just didnt feel it

[tawdry knot]

fair

[sharp ivy]

I'm pretty sure I've seen the girl and that's it

[tepid lynx]

like when that girl died i felt like 0

[sharp ivy]

idk anything about that anime

[tepid lynx]

i was just like oh i guess she dead now

[sharp ivy]

girl died?? your lie in April time

[tepid lynx]

fml bro

[tawdry knot]

lol

nah i was sad at that scene

[tepid lynx]

thats one of the few anime that made me sob

i can count maybe on one hand

[tawdry knot]

did you guys watch uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

dungeon meshi

[tepid lynx]

hey do you want a good movie? watch i want to eat your pancreas

[sharp ivy]

what's this again

[tepid lynx]

im not caught up

[tepid lynx]

delicious in dungeon

[tawdry knot]

a group of goobers cook monsters

[sharp ivy]

definitely not

lol

[tawdry knot]

its a good watch

fairly unique on a fantasy perspective

[tepid lynx]

its really good actually

[tawdry knot]

at least as far as i saw

[tepid lynx]

its a netflix original btw

[sharp ivy]

the only food based shows I've seen are food wars (not good) and Ben to (not good, but guilty pleasure)

[tawdry knot]

yeah i love dungeon meshi

i think youll like dungeon meshi

[tepid lynx]

this is the other anime (ig movie but still) that made me sob

bro the scene where he says ||Is it okay to cry now|| fucked me up bro

[tawdry knot]

one of the more recent animes i watched was kaiju no 8 which was disappointingly but unsurprisingly power fantasy where no one dies and no meaningful dramas happen

ever

[sharp ivy]

I've heard of pancreas before, should've put it on my plan to watch

[tepid lynx]

do it

[tawdry knot]

the humanoid organ harvester being reminded of anatomy

[sharp ivy]

so many wasted pancreases

[tawdry knot]

"i've heard of pancreas before" is pretty funny ngl

[sharp ivy]

I could've made good money

[tawdry knot]

real

[sharp ivy]

speaking of organ harvesting anime,

jk could you imagine

wait..mm

SOUL EATER????

holy fuck

[tawdry knot]

that time i got reincarnated as an organ mafia

i've heard of soul eater a lot
is it good

[sharp ivy]

if you haven't seen soul eater you just gotta

you gotta

[tawdry knot]

oh yeah i also uhhhhhhhhhhhh

didnt watch tokyo ghoul

[sharp ivy]

it's the most anime anime ever made and it's good

[tawdry knot]

which is also great appearently

[sharp ivy]

I haven't seen Tokyo ghoul

[tepid lynx]

I GOT REINCARNATED AS A TOILET AND NOW I TRAVEL THE LANDS SEARCHING FOR ELF WOMEN TO PISS ON ME

i think that exists

thats the kind of bottom of the barrel shit coming out

for isekai

[tawdry knot]

accurate with the long ass title too

[sharp ivy]

isn't this just mushoku

[tepid lynx]

TRUE

[tawdry knot]

well

there are no elves

[sharp ivy]

Lol

[tawdry knot]

in mushoku

and hes not a toilet

otherwise accurate

[sharp ivy]

aren't they basically just elves with a different flavor

[tepid lynx]

they are human

[tawdry knot]

i am so stupid

[sharp ivy]

but a "different kind" of human?

[tawdry knot]

rudeus's childhood friend is literally a fucking elf

[tepid lynx]

nah they for all intents and purposes are human

[sharp ivy]

yea I was gonna say

that's a plot point

[tepid lynx]

she not human

[sharp ivy]

theyre racist

[tawdry knot]

yeah they have no like

distinctions

than humans

other than physical appearence

which is one of my biggest pet peeves in general fantasy

DONT MAKE EVERYTHING HUMANOID YOU MORONS

[tepid lynx]

i lied

[tawdry knot]

BE CREATIVE

[tepid lynx]

shes an elf apparentlyu

[tawdry knot]

MAKE FUCKED UP SHIT

[sharp ivy]

I mean the real point of searching for elvish women to piss on/in you is the taboo and suppression, not the long ears

🤪

[tepid lynx]

wait ur right

[tawdry knot]

no the long ears are like

yeah actualy

LOL

[tepid lynx]

well if u want an elf woman with no taboo/suppression in mushoku theres a character called elinalise

[sharp ivy]

lame

probably not even good at peeing

anyways-

[tepid lynx]

theres no peeing thankfully

[tawdry knot]

shes quite literally a whre

tho

but yeah

[tepid lynx]

yea but shes an elf

so

[tawdry knot]

real

[tepid lynx]

also she was cursed

so not her fault

[tawdry knot]

true

[sharp ivy]

also yes it's not "good" in any traditional sense of the word....

but

it's good 🙂

[tawdry knot]

i also liked the ||masked girl that was also from the previous world that actually wanted to return||

i really want to see more stuff like this

[tepid lynx]

PARASYTE THE MAXIM

[tawdry knot]

||multiple characters being reincarnated and having a debate about it||

[tepid lynx]

major spoilers

dont click

im ngl

legit the next season is going to have the biggest turning point in the entire story for mushoku

[sharp ivy]

bad animation, nonexistent plot, no character writing really, but it's exactly what you go to watch it for
E

[tepid lynx]

i remember i watched this one degen show

where it was like some vr world but throughout the show

weird shit like happens

like the ui on screen is fucked up

[sharp ivy]

that's sao

🤪

[tawdry knot]

i dont think sao is a

degen show

no?

[sharp ivy]

eeeeeeh

[tepid lynx]

i dont think i can even find it

[tawdry knot]

again i only barely watched the first two episodes

so

[sharp ivy]

gratuitous ass shots but it's not absurdly lewd

silica's ass has too much screen time

[tawdry knot]

of course

did you guys watch eminence in the shadow

[sharp ivy]

I want to

[tawdry knot]

its great

[sharp ivy]

I've been slacking so hard on recent anime

[tawdry knot]

it embraces isekai tropes so comically it reverts to being actually hilarious

[tepid lynx]

i literally cannot find it

[tawdry knot]

good watch

[tepid lynx]

but it was interesting solely because like it randomly becomes glitched

[tawdry knot]

like the show is self concious about it and its good

[tepid lynx]

and then that factors into the story

[sharp ivy]

literally VR?

[tepid lynx]

idk bro i forgot

i cant even find it

its obscure

[sharp ivy]

is it one of these lmfao

[tepid lynx]

no

[sharp ivy]

worth a shot

there is something like that in .hack but I don't think that's what you mean

it's too old

[tawdry knot]

dr stone on list

big w

[tepid lynx]

its full

[sharp ivy]

yea that was junk food too

[tawdry knot]

i think i quit in s2 tho

[tepid lynx]

echi

echhi

[sharp ivy]

good stuff though

[tepid lynx]

fuck dude i cant fidn this show

[tawdry knot]

yeah

[sharp ivy]

Dr Stone is another "op main character" show I like btw

just in a different strength

[tawdry knot]

i view it as less of "op main character"

i get what you mean but i think the show handles that greatly

[tepid lynx]

see the issue with the show im trying to find here

its not echi with a good story

its not good at all

[tawdry knot]

lol

[tepid lynx]

but purely because of the conjunction between echi and some weird glitch horror element

it was entertaining

[sharp ivy]

a web novel that has the same vein of "smart guy rebuilds modern society in isekai" is Release that Witch, which is only slightly Chinese communist propaganda but mostly an amazing isekai fantasy story

[tepid lynx]

so because its not good i cant fucking find it

you really liked magical girl raising project huh

[sharp ivy]

eeer what was that again

I forgor

[tepid lynx]

fam theres a whole pico series???

and u watched it all??

[tawdry knot]

dr stone is the only "smart guy rebuilds society" anime i watched

[sharp ivy]

like 3 separate episodes I think

[tepid lynx]

its the one u wrote a giant ass review on

btw

[tawdry knot]

LMFAO

[tepid lynx]

the magical girl one

[sharp ivy]

😳 there's a few

[tepid lynx]

not pico not pico

[sharp ivy]

I must've wrote a lot bc I knew I'd forget

[tepid lynx]

extra long

[sharp ivy]

lemme go check

[tepid lynx]

and thats like

[tepid lynx]

maybe a quarter of the review

[tawdry knot]

yeah legitimately why is your review so long

[sharp ivy]

OOOPH

that anime

yea I had a lot of fun watching it and comparing it to madoka magica, which is fucking outstanding btw

so I had a lot in my head about it

[tepid lynx]

doesnt madoka get dark

also doesnt haruhi get dark

i need to watch madoka

[sharp ivy]

oh yeah, it is

[tepid lynx]

skinky asked me to watch madoka

ive been procrastinating

[sharp ivy]

madoka isn't a magical girl anime, it's a meta magical girl anime

it subverts expectations*

[sharp ivy]

what score did I give it again lmfao

I can't imagine it was more than an 8

[tepid lynx]

7

[sharp ivy]

yea I just had stuff to say, like I do for sao

I can accept that the things that tickle my fancy are objectively bad sometimes hehe

[tepid lynx]

fr fr

[sharp ivy]

just like balatro

[tepid lynx]

accept the things that dont tickle my fancy are objectively good as well if u can

that made no sense

anyways

[sharp ivy]

here's the thing, I can like bad things, but I'll never dislike a good thing 🤪 🤪

[tepid lynx]

fair

thats what mushoku is

for me

[sharp ivy]

I need to be resolute in one of my opinions and I'll be steadfast in negativity

[tepid lynx]

ig what i should say is that if something is good i can look past the bad stuff in it

[sharp ivy]

again, I didn't drop mushoku or anything

I just haven't gotten around to continuing it

[tawdry knot]

i think a lot of people forget that you can have criticisms about something you like without resorting to completely hating it

[sharp ivy]

I will when I get home now (except, tomorrow bc I hang with friends today)

[tawdry knot]

like its either one extremum or the other

for some

reason

[tepid lynx]

to be fair

if people hate it

for the obvious reasons to hate it

then im not gonna be that guy

[tawdry knot]

no like

[sharp ivy]

in fact I think your opinion on something is LESS valid if you love it without having any criticisms

[tawdry knot]

i mean more of

[tepid lynx]

if they dislike it they dislike it

[sharp ivy]

it means I can't trust you

[tawdry knot]

i really liked this story but i didnt like how this arc was covered

and then people think you just hate the story

and want it dead

this happens so much

[tepid lynx]

ohh yea

nah bro that shit pisses me off for real

if i went off on how shikamaru is a dumb fuck in naruto i would get flamed

but like the thing is i think i make valid criticism and especially for ongoing series criticism is important

[sharp ivy]

"I like waffles"
"so you want to genocide pancake lovers?" type

just extrapolating any given view to the opposite extreme for no reason

people dum

[tepid lynx]

bro like im ngl

naruto is poorly written even if i liked it

[sharp ivy]

it's a shonen jump manga

it almost can't be well written

[tepid lynx]

"sasuke is bad for taking revenge" but when shikamaru goes after hidan its all good

[sharp ivy]

when you have weekly deadlines on all your story beats you're just not gonna make well written plots

[tawdry knot]

exactly

[tepid lynx]

bro im ngl i think i hate shikamaru because hes like avg level smartness but hes worshipped like albert einstein

[tawdry knot]

naruto sucks

like i could hate it purely because of sasuke being so

bad

[tepid lynx]

spectacle is what makes me enjoy it

[sharp ivy]

that's why I watch one piece

[tawdry knot]

narutoooooo
sasukeeeee
this happens so many times

and then nothing really happens

and then it happens again

[sharp ivy]

stretchy boy fights the government is more fun than government boy fights the secret evil

[tawdry knot]

early naruto was not bad as far as i recall

[tepid lynx]

bro ok

even in the fight with shikamaru and temari

if you really think about it

his plan was stupid as fuck because at the end he mentions he is going to run out of chakra

so he would die if it was a real fight

[tepid lynx]

true

[sharp ivy]

y'know what's funny

[tawdry knot]

i remember nothing about shikamaru

but yeah i dont like naruto

[tepid lynx]

and then ppl say this

bro

i actually crash out

when i see shit like this

ts pmo

[tawdry knot]

your fault for being on reddit tbh

[sharp ivy]

I've had thousands of anime conversations probably, but I've never heard anyone ever mention Pokemon

is it just bad?

[tepid lynx]

i dont have to go on reddit

to find ppl like this

they are everywhere

glazing tf out of anime

no faults allowed

[tepid lynx]

its good

[tawdry knot]

or the opposite

hating it with every

[tepid lynx]

if i was to recommend a show to watch

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fiber of their being

[tepid lynx]

for pokemon

[tawdry knot]

nothing in between

[tepid lynx]

watch x and y

i didnt watch that much tbf for pokemon icl

but x and y i did watch and most people would agree its the best series

id say

[sharp ivy]

it's the Internet effect truly
moderates just stay piped down because the extreme views have a bigger platform than irl

[tawdry knot]

like "this anime is the best thing in the world and i would actually kill you if you gave it any sort of criticism" is the same thing as "if you watch anime you are a lowlife loser gooner with no friends"

to me

[sharp ivy]

social media destroying society and all that

[tawdry knot]

same shit different colour

[sharp ivy]

well, I'd say I'll keep it in mind but I don't think I am gonna put time aside for pokemon

when I could rewatch the first 3 seasons of aot and give up again

[tepid lynx]

idk man x and y is kinda peak

[tawdry knot]

lol

[sharp ivy]

and these days I'm more likely to braindeath on balatro

[tawdry knot]

havent been watching anime recently
im gonna finish adventure time and then restart better call saul

[sharp ivy]

interesting

[tawdry knot]

did you watch BCS and/or breaking bad

[sharp ivy]

breaking bad, yes, 2 seasons of BCS, yes

[tawdry knot]

yay and yay

i quit bcs after a certain while and now even if iremember where i left it off i wouldnt remember a lot of things

so i will just restart

[sharp ivy]

I feel that on like 20 different shows

I'm so bad

[tawdry knot]

bcs is really good so i dont mind it at all

did you watch castlevania

[sharp ivy]

I did not

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castlevania is extremely peak

[sharp ivy]

hmmm

[tawdry knot]

definitely give it a watch

[tepid lynx]

i didnt finish breaking bad

[sharp ivy]

I do have Netflix right now

[tepid lynx]

but i also know like most of the story

[sharp ivy]

maybe I will

[tawdry knot]

its so great

some parts are longer than i wished for and the ending is kind of bad but its really awesomesauce

[sharp ivy]

rn I'm gonna find mushoku LN and download it for later

[tawdry knot]

ok

[sharp ivy]

thought about where this thread started and god I wanna watch mushishi now

but I'm at work so I can't focus on a show

[sharp ivy]

which parts do you mean, like story arcs or

[tawdry knot]

not really arcs but something very close to that

a character getting unnecessary amount of screentime kind of thing

like i-liked-this-part-but-they-could-have-made-it-shorter

[sharp ivy]

I gotcha

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but it doesnt drag long enough that you get really bored

i like how this entire conversation happened because of matching backgrounds

i love the internet

[tepid lynx]

worddd

[sharp ivy]

yuh